What We Learned: from the Suez Crisis

The nine-day Suez Crisis of 1956 was sparked by a series of what in hindsight seem playground-worthy disputes, though they could have led to global Armageddon. That year Egypt switched its allegiance from Western arms suppliers to the Soviet bloc, buying a package of jet fighters, armor and artillery from Czechoslovakia. In response the United …

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